‘Alaska opposes tyranny!’ — Pro-Ukraine rally planned ahead of Trump-Putin summit in US | The rally, scheduled for Aug. 14 in Anchorage, is being held to protest the “presence of an international war criminal” and as a show of solidarity with Ukraine.
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From the article: Stand Up Alaska NGO plans to hold a protest ahead of the upcoming meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the northwestern U.S. state, according to an Aug. 11 statement.
As Washington seeks a path to end the war in Ukraine, the upcoming Aug. 15 meeting between Trump and Putin will mark their first face-to-face talks since the start of Trump’s second term.
“We’re here to tell Trump and Putin: Alaska opposes tyranny!” Stand Up Alaska’s statement read.
The rally, scheduled for Aug. 14 in Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, is being held to protest the “presence of an international war criminal” and as a show of solidarity with Ukraine, the NGO said.
Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy previously said the state was prepared to host the upcoming meeting between Trump and Putin, calling the event “historic.”
“Alaska is the most strategic location in the world, sitting at the crossroads of North America and Asia, with the Arctic to our north and the Pacific to our south,” Dunvealy wrote on X on Aug. 9.
“With a mere two miles separating Russia from Alaska, no other place plays a more vital role in our national defense, energy security, and Arctic leadership,” he added.
Trump announced the summit with Putin on Aug. 8 and reportedly told Ukraine and European leaders that the Kremlin is open to negotiations if “land swaps” are part of the deal.
Though it remains unclear what such a deal would entail, a source in Ukraine’s Presidential Office told the Kyiv Independent that Moscow seeks Kyiv’s full withdrawal from partially occupied Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in the east while offering to withdraw its forces from the limited areas it holds in the northeastern Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts.
Publicly, Putin has demanded a ban on Ukraine’s NATO membership and a full Ukrainian withdrawal from partially occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts as a precondition for peace talks.
In turn, Zelensky has rejected formally ceding territory to Russia and urged a ceasefire as the first step toward peace talks, a position backed by Kyiv’s European partners.
Zelensky is also expected to hold talks with European leaders and Trump two days before the summit in Alaska, on Aug. 13.
Why no protest on the day of their arrival?
This should be done *at* the site of the peace conference on the day of it, so that both Trump’s and Putin’s convoys driving in see it.
Ugh, Putin’s a war criminal, it’s a disgrace to even have him on American soil period, it turns my stomach.
I was just reading on Stand Up America, if you’re in Alaska put Ukrainian flags on the top of your homes, that way they’ll see them when they fly over.
Come on Alaska, you got this, show up, protest and let them know he is not welcome!🇺🇦
Pedo Rapist hosts War Criminal … Must be ‘Merica
Slava Ukraini!! Heroyam slava!! 🇺🇦
Slava Alaska!! 🇺🇲
Alaska voted Trump
Appeasement is a poison pill weak thoughtless leaders can’t seem to resist.
It leaves an indelible stain.
“Ever since I assumed my present office my main purpose has been to work for the pacification of Europe, for the removal of those suspicions and those animosities which have so long poisoned the air. The path which leads to appeasement is long and bristles with obstacles. The question of Czechoslovakia is the latest and perhaps the most dangerous. Now that we have got past it, I feel that it may be possible to make further progress along the road to sanity.” **Neville Chamberlain**
Let’s go Alaska, show Russia you are not part of their empire!
Putin is supposed to be arrested by the USA. Isn’t it against international law not arresting him? Or are we completely done with it?
Find where Putin is landing and encircle him!
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